Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) threw cold water on President Donald Trump’s plan to team up with Russian President Vladimir Putin to form a “cyber security unit” that he claims will prevent future election hacking.

Trump revealed the plan in a tweet on Sunday.

Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

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